dicare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dico, dicare, dicavi, dicatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
dedicate/consecrate; deify; devote; attach to another state; assign; show;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin. - Entry →dico, dicere, dixi, dictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
say, declare, state; allege, declare positively; assert; plead (case);; talk/speak; make speech; play (instrument); pronounce, articulate; utter; mean;; name/call; appoint, fix/set (date); designate, declare intention of giving;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber XIV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...LVIII Aphronitrum. Rusticus es? nescis, quid Graeco nomine dicar: Spuma vocor nitri. Graecus es? aphronitrum. LIX Opobalsama. Balsama..."- M
IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...mihi potius innocentia quam fato debeatur: ego dicar expugnasse constitutionem, fregisse vincula necessitatis, mea pietas, mea laudetur integritas..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...ventorumque simul require cursum, quos iunctos, Cameri, mihi dicares: defessus tamen omnibus medullis et multis languoribus peresus essem..." - P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...vulnera vires. persequar extinctum letique miserrima dicar causa comesque tui: quique a me morte revelli heu sola poteras..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...refero. pro quo mihi gratia talis redditur, ut dicar tutela pulsa Minervae et ponar post noctis avem..." - P
Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...eris invidiae, torrens, mihi crede, ferendae, si dicar per te forte retentus amans. flumina deberent iuvenes in amore..." - P
Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...Venus artificem tenero praefecit Amori; Tiphys et Automedon dicar Amoris ego. Ille quidem ferus est et qui mihi..." - T
Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Luamque matrem et ceteros deos, quibus spolia hostium dicare ius fasque est, ipse imperator face subdita succendit; deinde..."
